Hi everyone, now and then I get an email around confusion over the name Michael, because a lot of new age people and those in religion confuse Christ MIchael and Arch Angel Michael and there was a recent discussion on AHS on the topic also. I was writing a personal email answer to one there and decided instead to put the information on the site. I should do this more often, because if one has a question, so do others.

I have been posting in fact elsewhere a couple times on this. In Revelations there is mention of the battle in heaven, (which was the Lucifer Rebellion), and it "Michael and his angels" refers to Christ Michael and not Arch Angel Michael. I did this recently in fact because somebody told me Christ Michael is not mentioned anywhere in the bible, therefore he is not real. Well, he is mentioned as above.

 This is what I was writing just a few minutes ago in response to the discussion on Michael on AHS.  Then I have placed a portion of the discussion from AHS.

The term the Arch Angel of Michael  from the UB quoted below refers to a special representative of the Michael. It doesn't mean Arch Angel Michael.  There is indeed also an Archangel by the name of Michael, and this one is the head of archangels on this earth as mentioned in the UB.  This is a coincidence.

Another confusion is the name Gabriel. Gabriel of the UB and in the story of AA Gabriel in the Bible are both Gabriel of Nebadon, the chief executive and first created Son of Nebadon.  There is an Arch Angel Gabriel also, but this one is not assigned to earth. So any mention of Gabriel in the bible, Lore and the like of earth refers to our chief executive of Nebadon, whom I have worked with personally but not publicly.

The Gabriels are usually involved personally with the bestowal planet of the Michael in most universes. So Gabriel is actually a title, as is the term Michael for the Creator Sons. Our Christ Michael has a personal complex name that is "sung" as it uses harmonics, and it's very long. It includes "Aton" as part of that name. All of the Creator Sons have long personal names and I bet the Arch Angels have more complex names than are expressed in our languages on earth. And amongst the widely diverse languages of earth and all evolutionary planets, I think you do the best you can with assigning a name into a language for the heavenly ones.

People of earth, not knowing these things tend to call any great being an arch angel. AA Rafael (spelled Raphael by some) is one assigned to earth and his speciality as a "healing angel" in lore, is because he is bascially a very advanced physician. Arch Angels hold many jobs. And also, many higher etheric beings have visited earth that are ascending Sons, and these ones get label "angels" too.

Names are used over and over by different pesonalities. There are lots of beings named "Andrea"  running around for example. There is a primary midwayer named Andrea that communicates through the guy in Australia, I can't remember his name right this moment. And my personal Destiny Guardian Angel who has traveled with me all the way through my journey to the Central Universe is called Andrea also. She is here with me at this time, aboard the Capricorn and is responsible for the conversion of my 3d aging body to a 4d regenerating body.  My "Andrea" is a Seraphin, and belongs to the Corp of Finality as a Trinatized Custodian. These are discussed on Page 147-148 of Paper 22 in the UB.

Fidel from AHS:

Maybe this can help a bit, from the below bolded quote in the UB we can find the mentioning of "THE ARCHANGEL OF MICHAEL", which could be different from "MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL". However the Urantia cosmology talks of Archangels as a being from the creation of the [local Universes]- from a Creator Son and a Mother Spirit, so logic will tell that "Michel the Archangel" is a creation of "Michael the Creator Son". I am not sure 100%, but something tells me by what I have read, and my personal intuition that Archangel Michael the one from the old scripture like the bible, AND the one speaking through different receivers like Ronna Herman and others is a Creation of Christ Michael our Creator Son, which is a personality of the Paradise Sons of God of the order of Michael.

Most of the Christian traditions that I know a bit, don't know Jesus of Nazareth as a "Michael"-Christ Michael, but they do have awareness of the archangel Michael as an Archangel. It might be that these differences between the different celestial personalities have definitely contributed to the misunderstandings of early Christianity

. THE ARCHANGELS  (From the Urantia Book)

Archangels are the offspring of the Creator Son and the Universe Mother Spirit. They are the highest type of high spirit being produced in large numbers in a local universe, and at the time of the last registry there were almost eight hundred thousand in Nebadon.

Archangels are one of the few groups of local universe personalities who are not normally under the jurisdiction of Gabriel. They are not in any manner concerned with the routine administration of the universe, being dedicated to the work of creature survival and to the furtherance of the ascending career of the mortals of time and space. While not ordinarily subject to the direction of the Bright and Morning Star, the archangels do sometimes function by his authority. They also collaborate with others of the Universe Aids, such as the Evening Stars, as is illustrated by certain transactions depicted in the narrative of life transplantation on your world.

The archangel corps of Nebadon is directed by the first-born of this order, and in more recent times a divisional headquarters of the archangels has been maintained on Urantia. It is this unusual fact that soon arrests the attention of extra-Nebadon student visitors. Among their early observations of intrauniverse transactions is the discovery that many ascendant activities of the Brilliant Evening Stars are directed from the capital of a local system, Satania. On

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further examination they discover that certain archangel activities are directed from a small and apparently insignificant inhabited world called Urantia. And then ensues the revelation of Michael's bestowal on Urantia and their immediately quickened interest in you and your lowly sphere.

Do you grasp the significance of the fact that your lowly and confused planet has become a divisional headquarters for the universe administration and direction of certain archangel activities having to do with the Paradise ascension scheme? This undoubtedly presages the future concentration of other ascendant activities on the bestowal world of Michael and lends a tremendous and solemn import to the Master's personal promise, "I will come again."

In general, the archangels are assigned to the service and ministry of the Avonal order of sonship, but not until they have passed through extensive preliminary training in all phases of the work of the various ministering spirits. A corps of one hundred accompanies every Paradise bestowal Son to an inhabited world, being temporarily assigned to him for the duration of such a bestowal. If the Magisterial Son should become temporary ruler of the planet, these archangels would act as the directing heads of all celestial life on that sphere.

Two senior archangels are always assigned as the personal aids of a Paradise Avonal on all planetary missions, whether involving judicial actions, magisterial missions, or bestowal incarnations. When this Paradise Son has finished the judgment of a realm and the dead are called to record (the so-called resurrection), it is literally true that the seraphic guardians of the slumbering personalities respond to "the voice of the archangel." The roll call of a dispensation termination is promulgated by an attendant archangel. This is the archangel of the resurrection, sometimes referred to as the "archangel of Michael."

The Worlds of the Archangels. The seventh group of the encircling Salvington worlds, with their associated satellites, is assigned to the archangels. (Candace: Salvington is the headquarters worlds of Nebadon).  Sphere number one and all of its six tributary satellites are occupied by the personality record keepers. This enormous corps of recorders busy themselves with keeping straight the record of each mortal of time from the moment of birth up through the universe career until such an individual either leaves Salvington for the superuniverse regime or is "blotted out of recorded existence" by the mandate of the Ancients of Days.

It is on these worlds that personality records and identification sureties are classified, filed, and preserved during that time which intervenes between mortal death and the hour of repersonalization, the resurrection from death.

For the whole chapter on the personalities of our Local universe of Nebadon:http://www.urantia.org/papers/paper37.html

De personalities of the Grand Universe:http://www.urantia.org/papers/paper37.html

En the personalities of the Paradise Sons of God: http://www.urantia.org/papers/paper20.html